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Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy

Joanna Macy

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The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer

Robin Wall Kimmerer emergencemagazine.org

Le mouvement international des Initiatives en Transition s’appuie notamment sur le travail de Joanna Macy et sur son récit qu’elle appelle le « Changement de Cap » (The Great Turning342). Pour elle, trois grands récits sont actuellement en train de se disputer. Celui du « Business as usual », selon lequel des innovations technologiques bien pensées

Pablo Servigne • Une autre fin du monde est possible (Anthropocène) (French Edition)

Joanna Macy speaks of the “great turning,” a collective awakening and shifting direction, away from the wanton destruction of this planet and each other, away from those practices of separation and competition listed above, towards life and abundance.40 I like this visual of turning and evolving, as opposed to destroying the systems in place now.

adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows — ‘What a world you’ve got inside you.’ | The On Being Project

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Humanity is at a crossroads, will we be hoarders or healers? There is every reason to argue that history proves either. System Change is needed to find our way to another way of living that is not fed by exploitation of each other and the ecology. The change needed is not in any of the institutions, for surely they are interdependent, the change is... See more

Nora Bateson • Digging into Warm Data, The Warm Data Lab, and Certified Training.

We have been living a myth. We have constructed a dream. We have cajoled and seduced ourselves into believing we are the center of all things; with plants and other sentient beings from ants to lizards to coyotes and grizzly bears, remaining subservient to our whims, desires, and needs. This is a lethal lie that will be seen by future generations a... See more

Terry Tempest Williams • The Pall Of Our Unrest

Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown explain that the Great Turning is happening simultaneously in three areas or dimensions that are mutually reinforcing and equally necessary. They identify these as “holding actions” to slow the damage to Earth and its beings; analysis of structural causes and the creation of alternative institutions; and a fundamen

Bill Plotkin • Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World

What lies before us is the opportunity and imperative for a thorough cultural transformation — what eco-philosopher Joanna Macy calls the Great Turning, the transition from an egocentric “Industrial Growth Society” to a soulcentric “Life-sustaining Society,” or what economist David Korten in The Great Turning calls the transition “from Empire to Ea